Bug 1190 - scp -r copies soft links across as real files
Summary: scp -r copies soft links across as real files
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1466
Alias: None
Product: Portable OpenSSH
Classification: Unclassified
Component: scp (show other bugs)
Version: 4.2p1
Hardware: Other Linux
: P2 normal
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Reported: 2006-05-18 06:32 AEST by Gearoid Murphy
Modified: 2008-07-22 12:08 AEST (History)
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Description Gearoid Murphy 2006-05-18 06:32:01 AEST 
scp -r recursively copies soft links (such as directories) from the source machine and places them as real directories in the target machine
Comment 1 Damien Miller 2008-06-13 13:49:32 AEST 
We will document this behaviour, but it is too late to change it.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1466 ***
Comment 2 Damien Miller 2008-07-22 12:08:14 AEST 
Mass update RESOLVED->CLOSED after release of openssh-5.1